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vkphani
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Hi,
Can anybody please let me know how to convert decimal data into binary data. |
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kolusu
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vkphani,
(start pos,length,PD,BI) will convert the decimal data into binary data.
Hope this helps...
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Frank Yaeger
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For more information on using the numeric conversion parameters of DFSORT's INREC, OUTREC and OUTFIL OUTREC that Kolusu mentioned above, see "Reformatting Features" - "Reformatting: Numeric Conversion" in "Beyond Sorting" at:
http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/beyond_sorting/
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vkphani
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I coded (start pos,length,PD,to=BI) in my SORT JCL and it worked fine.
Thanks for your info Kolusu and Yaeger. |
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mfjin
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 3:05 am Post subject: |
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| Decimal data need not be packed decimal. It can be unpacked also. Paneendra did not specify packed decimal. |
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kolusu
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Mfjin,
Can you enlighten me as to what you meant by UNPACKED decimal in here? Did you mean unsigned packed decimal? I assume you speak cobol, so can you show me the definitions of UNPACKED decimal?
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Frank Yaeger
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mfjin,
The only other type of "decimal" that sort products recognize is ZD (zoned decimal). Is that what you're talking about?
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mfjin
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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frank/kolusu,
yes i was referring to zd. (something like 12345.67). I was wondering how Kolusu realised that vkphani is referring to packed decimal and not zoned decimal (zoned decimal is not packed decimal), because when vkphani mentioned decimal what came to my mind immediately is a numeric like 12345.67. sorry it is not a siginificant question. i was just wondering if i was missing something. |
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superk
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| mfjin, I feel the same way you do. I do not speak in COBOL-ease, as I am a Technical Analyst and not a programmer, and I would have also made the same presumption. I have also made similar comments to other posts where there seems to be a logical gap from the question to the answer with a whole lot of assumptions made in between. Maybe there are intermediate posts that are being edited out - I don't know. I'm hoping that, over time, it will become clear to me how these assumptions are assertained. |
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kolusu
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Mfjin,
May be my time spend on the help board made me assume that phani is refering Packed decimal instead of zoned decimal.
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because when vkphani mentioned decimal what came to my mind immediately is a numeric like 12345.67.
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Even though you thought of zoned decimal in this context, but when you tried to refer it you refered it as NUMERIC.
Most people have trouble intrepreting the binary and packed decimal data since it cannot be viewed in 3.4 dsn listing.
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Maybe there are intermediate posts that are being edited out - I don't know.
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Superk: I can assure you that none of content in the posts are edited. It is only titles or some kind of formatting(adding code blocks) is done.
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| Quote: | | Maybe there are intermediate posts that are being edited out |
I believe only Kolusu (Administrator) and I (Moderator) can edit this Forum. He said he's not editing anything out, and I haven't either.
| Quote: | | there seems to be a logical gap from the question to the answer with a whole lot of assumptions made in between. |
I think many of the answers to the vague questions are more along the line of "here's an example that might be relevent to what you asked for based on what I can figure out about what you said" rather than "here's exactly what you need". With some of these questions, it's impossible to answer without making assumptions (even after several go-rounds in some cases). This is one of the things I find most frustrating about answering questions on help boards. People just don't know how to describe what they want with any precision, leading to guessing games.
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